It's been over 80 for the last few days, and I'm going up to Portland for the rest of this week to see my sister, so I took advantage of the warm weather and went for a run yesterday afternoon. My brain quickly tuned out and started working on this story I'm about to publish, so my feet went the...

"I have to tell you," Jonathan Coulton's wife said to me on the last night of the cruise, "how wonderful your boys are." "I have two daughters," Peter Sagal's wife told Anne, "and I hope this isn't weird or creepy, but I really hope they meet guys like your sons." "Dude, you know you raised your...

As a sophomore in HS, I won the local video arcade contest...a ten week contest on 5 different games (Scramble, Vanguard, Millipede, Rock-n-Rope, Stargate), with a ladder tourney at the end on Millipede. I won a 13" B&W TV. :)
I always like Star Wars, Star Trek in the console...but the best game for me was always Discs of Tron.

I spend a lot of time remembering and writing about the video games I played while growing up, mostly because it's the closest I can come to actually playing them, until the magical day arrives when I have an entire room in my house dedicated to housing a classic arcade and console collection. I...

I spend a lot of time remembering and writing about the video games I played while growing up, mostly because it's the closest I can come to actually playing them, until the magical day arrives when I have an entire room in my house dedicated to housing a classic arcade and console collection. I...

About nine years ago, we were in the era of the "C"-word. The word collaboration was being overused by the marketing departments of CAD vendors, to the point that upFront.eZine and others began calling it the "C"-word -- a reflection of how sick we editors were from hearing it. But as of Friday...

Not to look ahead without seeing....but if this one is as good as the Mee-Maw episode...
In a world where Justin Timberlake and Bruce Willis can win the award, why not Wil Wheaton for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series"? A ground swell is forming...
And if Wil doesn't get it, Evil Wil will just go take it.

My friend Rich, who writes and draws Diesel Sweeties, occasionally gives me wonderful gifts, like that awesome 8-bit drawing of me in the infamous clown sweater that sits on what would be my blog's masthead, if blogs had mastheads. When I got home from working on The Big Bang Theory yesterday, t...

Oh, gosh....even the mention of R13 sends shivers down my spine. I remember seeing chunks of metal fly out of the machine when R13 was first shown in my town.
Then as a reseller, always asking the wonderful question: which patch are you on? C1, C2, C3, C4, C4a, C4b, etc.... sigh
"Good" times...thanks Ralph, I think I'll go over in the corner and get into a fetal ball and cry.

Registered AutoCAD R13 for UNIX customers will receive the latest version of AutoCAD R13 for UNIX in late February 1996. - Autodesk Ships an Updated Version of AutoCad R13 for UNIX; The Leader In Design Software Delivers Object-Oriented Technology to UNIX.

Well, it's official. Evil Wil Wheaton is going back to The Big Bang Theory! From TV Guide Magazine: Geeks everywhere will be happy hear that Star Trek star Wil Wheaton will be returning to hang out with TV’s hippest nerds on The Big Bang Theory. “We were very excited when Wil Wheaton appeared...

An employee of Coade prompted me to check with Intergraph about the CAD giant's largest ever acquisition. Coade has two lines of software that got Intergraph interested: (a) P&ID and plant software that runs on AutoCAD, and (b) standalone analysis software for piping systems, tanks and vessels, a...

First post! Woo!
What's really cool about this is that you and Frakes will always have a "in" joke between you two. It's always nice to have something you can point to and have a nice smile between friends.

This is excerpted from something that was written eight years ago, almost to the day. In addition to being a story that still makes me smile, it provides context and back story for Friday's post that newer readers may not have. Even though I'm a much stronger and more confident writer now than I...

I'm at w00tstock right now, and I haven't even seen the show, but I thought it would be fun to write a post in advance so anyone who watched The Big Bang Theory tonight would have a place to talk about it. If everything goes according to plan, this should post right as the episode is finishing o...